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Millennium Hearts~* Part 3; No Longer One *~
"You seemed a little distracted today, Yugi." Tea looked over at her best friend with worry. He'd been abnormally silent today, and it was worrying, not even her, but Joey and Tristan as well.
Yugi blinked out of his transe and looked up and Tea. "Sorry about that. I've just had a lot on my mind."
Joey heard this and looked at Yugi. "Like what? You can tell us, buddy."
Yugi looked down, ashamed that he had brought his friends into this.It could be dangerous, and he knew what happened last time...
//They want to help//
/I know, Yami, but I don't want them to get hurt again./
//Do what you think is best.//
Yugi looked back up at his three friends and gave them the best smile he could muster. "Don't worry, guys, I'm alright."
Joey didn't buy it and looked down at Yugi suspicioiusly. "Are you -" Tea smack him in the back of the head and continued for him. "Okay, Yugi, but just remember that we're here for you whenever you need us."
Yugi smiled at tea. "Thanks, I have to go home now though, Grandpa needed some help in the shop today." He started to walk towards his home and waved back at them. "Thanks again!"
Once he had gone out of hearing range, Joey glared to his right at Tea. "What's the big idea?!"
Tea glared right back at Joey. "If he wanted to tell us, he would! We can't force him! He'll tell us when he's ready."
Joey sighed and gave up fighting. In the end, Tea would probably end up being right anyhow, or at least according to her. Besides, he wasn't in the mood for a headache. He watched his friend disappear around the corner and hoped that he would tell them soon.
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//They're worried about you//
/I know, but you know what happened last time they were involved./
Yami winced at the memory. //yes, but we got them back, thanks to you.//
/Thanks to Joey and Seto too, but I don't want to risk it again. We may not be so lucky next time./
//Do what you wish, Aibou.//
/I wi-/
//YUGI!//
Yami could feel Yugi's fright and felt a pounding in his head. His Yugi was in trouble! Yami concentrated hard to switch, but when he opened his eyes, nothing happened! Yami growled as he heard a gruff chuckle. "I wouldn't try it, pharaoh, I've put a spell on little Yugi, you won't be helping out anytime soon."
Yami felt the rage growing in him. "What do you want with Yugi? And who are you?"
"My name is Levi. I'm sent here to destroy you."
Yami felt a scowl grow on his face. "Then battle me, not Yugi!"
Yami couldn't see it, but he could feel the attacker's grin grow on his face. "I figure, pharoh, that if I kill your vessel," Yami gasped, "I kill you."
Yami felt a sudden pain in his stomach, and could only imagine what Yugi was feeling. "Yugi!" He cried. He tried against to break through the spell and change places with Yugi, but it was to no avail.
Helplessness filled Yami. He feel to his knees and forward again so that his hands supported him. "Yugi!" He cried, tears coming to his eyes, but he held them back. Pharaoh's don't cry. There was another sharp pain on his cheek. "Yugi..." he whispered.
/Yami.../
//Yugi!//
There was pain all over now.
/I'm sorry Yami.../
The tears were getting harder to hold back now. //Don't be sorry, Yugi! This is NOT your fault!//
/I'm not strong enough to hold him off, I'm sorry.../
Another pain to his head.
//Yugi!//
/Good-bye.../
//Yugi!!//
/.../
//YUGI!!//
There was a pain in his stomach, but Yami was numb all over and he was shaking. 'I'm sorry, Yugi, I've failed you.' He slammed his fist on the ground. A renewed strength coursed through him and he looked up from his kneeling position on the floor. 'No, I won't give up! I can't!'
There final pain to his head and Yami concentrated all his power to swtiching. The tears finally flowed down his cheeks in rivers and he let out one last desperate cry. "YUGI!!!!!!!"
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Levi was grinning all the while he was hitting Yugi, trying to finish him off, while giving the pharoh the pain of knowing he'd failed his aibou.
There was sudden light emitted by the millennium puzzle causing Levi to drop Yugi and back off. "No!" He gasped while still turned away from the bright light. "It's impossible to break the spell!"
The light eventually died down and Levi looked back expecting to see Yami ready to kill him, but he was wrong. There was the battered and bleeding Yugi still lying there unmoving. But what surprised Levi to no end was, no longer was there two Yugi's in one, there was just two Yugi's!
Yami was kneeling beside Yugi, his eyes closed. Levi smirked. Yami was probably dying just like Yugi was anyway. He stepped over towards Yami to give him the final punch, but Yami's eyes sprung open and blocked Levi's punch.
Yami obviously was just as healthy as ever, and just as enraged as ever. Yami rose to his feet and glared holes through Levi. "You will pay for this!"
Levi growled and reached for his deck, but he noticed a dark mist beginning to form around his body. He looked up at Yami who held his hand out and was also shrouded this black mist. "Let me show you why they call me Yami!"
The darkness became thicker around Levi and a sense of dread filled his soul. "NOOOOooo" Finally, the darkness disappeared leaving nothing but an empty shell that fell to the ground with a hollow 'thud'.
Yami was breathing hard, apparently, separating himself from the puzzle as well as casting Levi to the shadow realm had taken his toll on him, but there wasn't time to worry about that.
Yami knelt down beside Yugi and as gently as he could, placed one arm behind his back and another around his legs. He carefully lifted him up and cradled him close. "Yugi..." He whispered.
No response, but he didn't expect one. What did Yugi say to do if something happened...? Yami tried to think back, but his mind was muddled and distraught. He closed his eyes. 'Now is not the time! I have to pull myself together and save Yugi!'
Yami's eye flew open. "The hospital!" He declared out loud. He gave one last glance at the fallen Levi before running out of the ally and get his aibou to the hospital.
*****You like? I just thought for all the stories when Yami is separated, I thought I should at least explain how Yami gets separated, you know? Yea... anyway... there's that part ^_^*****
The attacker's part was originally written for Bakura, so if it seems a little off, sorry -^_^-
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